Michigan · Nonprofit
DOWNTOWN LANSING PARTNERSHIP INC
DOWNTOWN LANSING PARTNERSHIP INC (Michigan) receives grants from 5 organizations whose IRS filings report $320,857 to it, the largest being CONSUMERS ENERGY FOUNDATION ($100,000). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $252k
- Funders on record
- 5
- Grants received
- $321k
- Net assets
- $201k
What Downtown Lansing Partnership Inc does
Mission
To support the economic development and improvement of the downtown area of lansing, michigan, for the benefit of the entire community, including residents, visitors, government, business, and nonprofit organizations, through such means as assisting and participating in developing planning by government and private organizations; supporting efforts to attract funding for community improvement projects; encouraging maintenance and improvement of existing housing, business, and institutional buildings and stimulating needed new housing, business, and institutional construction; working to retain existing businesses and attract new business development that will benefit the community; and raising funds needed to support the organization's work.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Program
Promoted downtown businesses and district and continued work on pre-development for a restaurant accelerator and welcomed the 5th cohort of retail accelerator participants.
$60,541 spentof which $56,743 as grants100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2024 Form 990. Program spending in total: $60,541.
Leadership and staff
The officers, directors, trustees and key employees listed on each return. Joined and no longer listed compare each filing with the year before, matching people by surname and first initial; a year after a gap, or a roster under three people, has no comparison.
Chief executive
Cathleen Edgerly
Executive director
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2020 → 2023: the base held at 1 funder, grant income fell $33k → $17k.
1 of 5 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 9% of grant dollars received. That money is really individual donors directing a sponsor; the institutions to cultivate are the non-DAF funders.
From the IRS filings of DOWNTOWN LANSING PARTNERSHIP INC’s funders (the co-funder graph). Association, not causation. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.
How concentrated its funding is
DOWNTOWN LANSING PARTNERSHIP INC leans on a few funders — its largest provides 31% of grant income and the top three 89%; half comes from just 2 funders.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left
69% of the income these shares are computed over arrives through pass-through sponsors or from payers whose filings do not say what kind of payment it is. Concentration is still measured over all of it, because the money is real; what it does not support is a claim about how many institutions have chosen to fund DOWNTOWN LANSING PARTNERSHIP INC.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2020 100% · 2021 61% · 2022 100% · 2023 100% — broadly stable.
“Effective funders” = inverse Herfindahl index (1 / Σ shareᵢ²) — the number of equal-sized funders that would give the same concentration. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.
Where its funders are
98% of DOWNTOWN LANSING PARTNERSHIP INC's grant income comes from Michigan funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $29k arriving through sponsors registered in 1 state is excluded from the map and the split above: a sponsor holds money on a donor’s behalf, so its registered address would place those dollars somewhere no donor need ever have been. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.
Against its field
DOWNTOWN LANSING PARTNERSHIP INC runs a healthier operating margin than three-quarters of the 7,175 community improvement nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 7,175 community improvement nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2025
Organizations like DOWNTOWN LANSING PARTNERSHIP INC
Organizations whose mission and program text most resemble this one, by semantic similarity over every organization in the US filings — the closest peers, and often the clearest route to shared or prospective funders.
In Michigan
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
85% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
66%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 1 state
Part of a family of 1 related entity
- Downtown Lansing Inc · exempt
Screen this organization
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Questions and answers
- Who funds DOWNTOWN LANSING PARTNERSHIP INC?
- DOWNTOWN LANSING PARTNERSHIP INC (Michigan) receives grants from 5 organizations whose IRS filings report $320,857 to it, the largest being CONSUMERS ENERGY FOUNDATION ($100,000). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does DOWNTOWN LANSING PARTNERSHIP INC have?
- IRS filings report 5 organizations giving $320,857 in grants to DOWNTOWN LANSING PARTNERSHIP INC, 1 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of DOWNTOWN LANSING PARTNERSHIP INC?
- CONSUMERS ENERGY FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $100,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like DOWNTOWN LANSING PARTNERSHIP INC find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Michigan. The funding by cause and by state pages list the largest funders for a given area and how to approach them.
These figures are read directly from IRS Form 990 / 990-PF e-file XML: this organization’s own return for FY2025 (financials across 2025–2025), and the filings of 5 funders that report grants to it. “On record” means captured in the filings we have parsed — a funder that does not e-file, or whose grant detail is not itemized, will not appear. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind. Trends on this page end at FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving; later years are shown and marked, and move no figure. Data on this page was exported October 14, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing